Pholidota

order of placental mammals
Taxon taxon Q2191516
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Summary

Pholidota is a taxon[1]. Pholidota ranks in the top 0.056% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (23,225 views/month, #109 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: order[3]
  • Parent taxon: Pholidotamorpha[4], Placentalia[5], mammal[6], Laurasiatheria[7]
  • Taxon name: Pholidota[8]
  • Commons category: Pholidota[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Pangolins[10]
  • Code of nomenclature: International Code of Zoological Nomenclature[11]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Otto's encyclopedia[13], Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary[14], Gujin Tushu Jicheng[15], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[16], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[17]
  • Taxon common name: Schuppentiere[18], Tannenzapfentiere[19], skjelldyr[20], luskavci[21]
  • Different from: Manis[22]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject COVID-19[23]
  • Homonymous taxon: Pholidota[24]

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Identifiers

Pholidota's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 43357[25]. Pholidota's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 9971[26]. Pholidota's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 1665[27]. Pholidota's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 796[28]. Pholidota's ITIS TSN is recorded as 180104[29].

Why It Matters

Pholidota has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] Pholidota is known by 57 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Fossilworks. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Class Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Mammal Species of the World (Third edition). Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . National Center for Biotechnology Information. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [26] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [29] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [27] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [28] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [20] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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